Crisis and Covenant

In this pioneering study of Jewish thought, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacksaddresses a crucial dilemma for Jews and Judaism today. The Holocaustand the birth of the State of Israel have combined to create a strongcontemporary awareness of peoplehood – of Jews as sharing a commonhistory, destiny and responsibility. But can there be peoplehood acrossthe deep religious and cultural divisions that are the heritage of the Jewishencounter with modernity?Crisis and Covenant, first published in 1992, is essential reading, notonly for students of Jewish thought and modern Jewish history, but forall those concerned with the fate of religious traditions in a secular age.